What Value for Incremental SOA?
In a recent article, John Moe discusses a taxonomy of approaches to SOA, specifically incremental SOA aka Zero Middleware or Guerrilla SOA. As John says, there are … … a number of alternative gurus offering to make SOA once more a simple, affordable option – which I will group into this Guerrilla SOA discussion, but also seek to differentiate the approaches to allow you to find a way forward that may best suit your circumstances. These approaches include: • Web Services: for these types of developers “SOA is all about creating the best WS-* compliant code, in Java or .NET, in the knowledge that each web service can call or be called using the WS standards evolving on the Web.” • Agile: “Agile can be applied to SOA to cut development times, but care must be taken to apply the approach to the development of services, not the whole application, otherwise you will end up with a single application-sized service.” • Service Providers: “With Software as a Service (SaaS) becoming more main
